General practices and hospitals have been urged to act after a fatal mix-up in which a patient’s penicillin allergy was incorrectly recorded as a penicillamine allergy in their GP record. The death of ...

Rolewicz and colleagues explain how the UK’s crackdown on immigration threatens the NHS workforce.1 I am worried about the kind of Britain that Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, is planning to build ...

A monthly injection of a monoclonal antibody helped 90% of patients with severe asthma to reduce their daily oral steroid tablets, researchers have found. Half of patients in the single arm, open ...

The introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 heralded a sexual revolution for women in the UK. For Jill Tattersall, who had trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, it proved a career defining ...

A trial of lenacapavir showed 100% protection against HIV infection. But cuts to foreign aid and criticism over its pricing put the brakes on a worldwide rollout. Elna Schütz asks if we’re now seeing ...

A British Palestinian doctor who made allegedly antisemitic posts on social media has been suspended from the UK medical register for 15 months while her fitness to practise is investigated. Rahmeh ...

Gender affirming care (GAC) for under 18s in the US falls short of the standards expected for medical treatment, a new government report claims. The report, by the US Department of Health and Human ...